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Stanovoi

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[stan-uh-voi, stuh-nuh-voi] / ˈstæn əˌvɔɪ, stə nʌˈvɔɪ /

noun

  1. a mountain range in the eastern Russian Federation in Asia: a watershed between the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean; highest peak, 8,143 feet (2,480 meters).


Etymology

Origin of Stanovoi

First recorded in 1795–1800; from Russian Stanovóǐ Khrebét “Stanovoi Ridge or Range”

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From Yakutsk to Okhotsk on the Pacific, the course was down the Lena, up the Aldan River, up the Maya, up the Yudoma, across the Stanovoi Mountains, down the Urak river to the sea.

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

It would even be preferable to attempt the summer journey down the Kolyma River and over the Stanovoi Mountains to Ola on the Okhotsk Sea.

From From Paris to New York by Land by De Windt, Harry

Black Magic is said to be practised in the Urals, Caucasus, Yerkhoiansk, and Stanovoi Mountains; in the Tundras, the Plains of East Russia, the Timan Range, the Kola Peninsula, and various parts of Siberia.

From Werwolves by O'Donnell, Elliott

Thus we travel on by degrees through Siberia, this immense country bounded on the south by the Altai, Sayan, the Yablonoi and Stanovoi Mountains, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders

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